CALL FOR APPLICATION: Workshops for Emerging Professionals during Para Site’s International Conference

Jul 16 – Jul 31, 2015

Workshop Dates: October 5 – 11, 2015

Alongside this year’s Para Site International Conference, we will work with a group of emerging curators, writers, critics, researchers, and other arts professionals from Hong Kong and the region in a new educational programme that includes a series of closed-door workshops, seminars, and site-visits. The programme is designed to provide learning opportunities mediated by reputed speakers from Para Site’s conference as well as by art practitioners from across Hong Kong’s diverse institutional landscape. Working with the topics covered in the Annual International Conference, the programme provides a laboratory for experimentation, posing fundamental questions and ideas that challenge various models of curatorial practice. It will also offer opportunities for networking and for the development of systems meant to nurture the participants’ careers. Participants will be selected through an application process.

This year, the conference will be exploring issues pertinent to developments in contemporary art exhibition making, and divided into four larger sections: Exhibitions as part of the economy of artistic production, Exhibition as autonomous fictional realms, Exhibitions as tools for writing history, and Exhibitions as places for political action. The conference will look at the different roles of exhibition making and at the various methods of structuring them. The workshop participants will attend this three-day conference, and be invited to provide responses to the presentations given by the diverse panel of speakers. Speakers at the conference include: Magali Arriola, Osei Bonsu, Clara Cheung, Freya Chou, Cosmin Costinas, Diedrich Diederichsen, Iris Dressler, Hendrik Folkerts, Julieta González, Abdellah Karroum, Chitti Kasemkitvatana, Vasif Kortun, Anders Kreuger, Brian Kuan Wood, Christina Li, Raimundas Malašauskas, Simon Soon, Lyno Vuth, Weng Xiaoyu, Chantal Wong, Yeung Yang among others.

SCHEDULEOctober 5th: Closed-door session 1Orientation and introduction by Para Site. Workshops lead by Freya Chou (Curator of Education and Public Programmes at Para Site) and Cosmin Costinas (Executive Director/Curator at Para Site); site-visits to other Hong Kong organizations.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS- A proposal (max. 600 words) for a curatorial project, which includes the concept, list of artists, and the institutional/geographical context for the project. This can be a purely hypothetical project, but it should be realistic and considerate towards the context selected.

- A description (max. 300 words) of another’s curatorial project that has made an impact on the applicant.

- Curriculum Vitae, including an extensive description of relevant working experience.